7 days

Our space is transforming. This old mayonnaise factory has seen many companies and owners come and go over the years, but it has never seen the likes of us. We stripped the floor down to the bare concrete and laid down new layers of indestructible (according the manufacturers spec-sheet) epoxy. From this tabula rasa we're raising new partition walls and laying down the patterns of use that will shape our first months here.If I say we're calm and collected before the storm of the first day of school, I might be lying. Maybe.But we're so excited to be doing what we're doing. Our full staff of seven came in for the first time yesterday to get down to business planning the first day of school and integrating the field trips and experts with activities and amazing projects to take on. We were off-site for most of the day as the floor was finally epoxied, and today with the floor looking shiny and new, we got to work with a small crew of volunteers painting, fixing walls, putting down the cork floor over the plywood sheets in the performance space, building walls, moving supplies, and bringing in new furniture to fill up the school for the students.There's work being done. Lots of it. We took a quick break, though, and made friends with Panorama Bakery, whose smell of baking bread wafts in gorgeous waves to us every afternoon from across the street. And they gave us some of their fresh-baked bread. Yum.